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Ankita Bhakat, a cadet from Tata Archery Academy, Jamshedpur has bagged Gold medal in mixed team World Archery Championship in Rosario, Argentina. The medal is India’s fourth World Archery Champion title across all disciplines.

Ms Purnima Mahato, Coach, Tata Archery Academy has been instrumental in guiding and shaping the skills of Ms Bhakat.

Speaking about the achievement Ms Mahato said “Tata Steel is committed towards promoting sporting activities and encouraging young talent to participate. We at Tata Steel are extremely proud and honored with Ms Bhakat’s achievement in Argentina. Archery is a very popular sport in Jharkhand and I am sure Ms Bhakat’s success will encourage more youth from the state to participate in this sport”

Some of the previous achievements of Ankita Bhakat in Archery include:

COMPETITION

VENUE

POSITION

1) Seoul International Youth Archery Fest 2015

3rd -9th September, KOREA

Mix Team-2nd Team- 2nd Individual -3rd

2) Asia Cup Stage 1 2017

20th -27th March, Bangkok THAILAND

Mix Team-2nd

3) Asia Cup Stage-2 World Ranking Archery Tournament 2017

7th -14th September CHINESE TAIPEI

Team-1st Individual -1st

4) Indoor World Cup Archery Tournament 2017

24th -30th December Bangkok, THAILAND

Overall Rank-9th

5) World Cup Stage 1 World Ranking Archery Tournament 2017

14th -22th May 2017 Shanghai, CHINA

Participation

6) World Cup Stage 2 World Ranking Archery Tournament 2017

18th -26th June 2017 Antalya, TURKEY

Participation

7) Asia Cup Stage-3 World Ranking Archery Tournament 2017

3rd-10th July,2017 CHINESE TAIPEI

Mix Team-3RD

About Tata Steel

Tata Steel Group is among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 27.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) as on March 31, 2017. It is the world's second-most geographically-diversified steel producer, with operations in 26 countries and a commercial presence in over 50 countries. The Group recorded a consolidated turnover of US $18.12 billion (INR 117,420 crore) in FY17. Tata Steel Group is spread across five continents with an employee base of nearly 74,000. Having bagged the Deming Application Prize and Deming Grand Prize for continuous improvement in 2008 and 2012 respectively, Tata Steel has now been recognised as the global ‘Industry Leader’ in ‘Steel category’ by Dow Jones Sustainability Index (2015). Besides being a member of the World Steel Climate Action Programmer, Tata Steel has also been felicitated with several awards including the Prime Minister’s Trophy for the best performing integrated steel plant for 2013-14 (received in 2017), Best Risk Management by CNBC TV18 (2016), ‘Best-in-class Manufacturing’ award from TIME India (2016) and the ‘Most Ethical Company’ award from the Euthyphro Institute (2016), IIM Sustainability Award (2015), among several others.